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In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

— John Sergeant Wise

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

— Dee Dee Myers

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

— Ron Paul

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

— Henry Villard

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

— Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

— Belle Boyd

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.

— Allan Gurganus

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

— Wayne Newton

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

— Mac Thornberry

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.

— Michael Gough

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

— Ambrose Burnside